But this war ended more quickly with the arrival of the climax, and Cao Cao's successive defeats and Sun Ce's fierce eyes all reflected Xu Ji's strength.

With the end of this battle, the shape of the world has become a foregone conclusion, although Liu Bei won Pang Tong Fengxiao, but the way out of Shu was restrained by Jia Xu, and Cao Cao's strength after the war was greatly damaged, only the turtle retracted back to Jiangdong to recuperate, and also beware of Sun Ce's covetousness from time to time.

And Xu Ji was already in control of the general trend of the world at this time, all Xu Ji needed was to recuperate in order to recover the damage caused by the continuous conquest of the past few years to his territory, and then Xu Ji could lead his troops to the expedition.

But at this time, although Xu Ji had a plan, he had to return to Chang'an, and Liu Xie was unstable again.

But this is not a problem that is too strict for Xu Ji, Liu Xie can't make any waves now, and even if there are still some stubborn royalists, they can't shake Xu Ji's position.

With Xu Ji's return to Chang'an, the turmoil finally subsided, and at this time Xu Ji received another interesting news for him, Xun Yu brought him an interesting news, Sima Yi hoped to be able to appear under Xu Ji's account.

Xu Ji's memory of Sima Yi comes entirely from the records in the history books, and it is even said in the wild history that this person was born with a vision and was the so-called "eagle and wolf" disciple. But Xu Ji was quite unimpressed, Sima Yi was definitely a talent, but not everyone could use such a talent.

If Xu Ji had raised his army at the beginning, he would never let go of such a talent, but at this time, there were so many generals under Xu Ji's command, there was no shortage of such a person, and Sima Yi's ambition was a hidden danger after all, and Xu Ji was not interested in playing any tricks and careful thinking with such a person. So he just said to Xun Yu lightly: "Wen Ruo can do it, if this person is really talented, he might as well put it there and use it." If it has no name, what is the pity of abandoning it? ”

This attitude undoubtedly made Xun Yu very puzzled. Xu Ji's attitude towards talents in the past was definitely not like this, but after the battle with Cao Cao, Xu Ji seemed to have undergone some changes, but Xun Yu couldn't say what was wrong with Xu Ji, after all, what Xu Ji said was not wrong, and employing people is to do their best.

After nearly half a year of calm down, Xu Ji stretched out his fangs, frustrating the army that had been in ambush for a long time and Jia Xu attacked Shu at the same time, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang obviously did not expect Xu Ji to get the map of entering Shu early, and he endured it for so long until he was a little lax about the border.

This was followed by a breakaway attack by Xu Ji's side. Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang were left and right, but they could not recruit Xu Ji's almost crazy attack, and even after Zhuge Liang recruited Nanban and Pang Tong won over Xiliang Ma, they still couldn't change Liu Bei's situation.

In March of the fifteenth year of Han Jian'an, Guan Yu was beheaded by Chen to the battle in Dingjun Mountain, Xu Ji, who learned the news, felt a little ironic, this was originally the place where Huang Zhong killed Xiahoudun, but now Guan Yu died.

In October of the same year, Zhang Fei was eager to avenge Guan Yu and kill his subordinates, and dedicated his head in front of Jia Xu's tent, so that Liu Bei's left and right arms were broken. Although Cao Cao and Sun Ce both tried to help, they were held back by Li Yan and Yu Chuan.

Less than half a month after Zhang Fei's death, Liu Bei received the news of Zhang Fei's death, vomited blood and fainted, and then became ill.

Ma was forced by the troops of Xu Ji's army to choose to surrender, and Liu Bei's last foreign aid also disappeared, and what followed was inevitable destruction. Liu Bei was forced to lead his troops to Jingzhou in a serious illness, leaving Zhang Ren and Pang Tong to die after being broken by Gan Ning's chains, and Pang Tong did not escape his fate. He was shot by random arrows and died in Luofeng Slope.

By this time, there were only a few people left around Liu Bei, and Zhao Yun was defeated by Chen Zhi when he was in the face of Chen Zhi's pursuit.

Then Xu Ji turned his eyes to Lu Bu. Xu Ji didn't intend to kill him, he just drove them to the boundless grassland. He asked Lu Bu to be the dog of the Chinese household.

In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Ce hunted for people and died in ambush, and it was later found out that it was killed by the descendants of his enemies in his early years, but Xu Ji got a completely unexpected news from the phantom, the person who killed Sun Ce was actually his brother Sun Quan's henchman, but Sun Ce seemed to have handed over his hard-working foundation to Sun Quan knowing this, but Sun Ce naturally still had people who understood, and since Sun Ce's death, Zhou Yu went to Guiyang County to recuperate on the grounds of physical discomfort.

Such Sun Quan was naturally not to be feared, and soon Zhou Yu also died of illness, just a month after Zhou Yu's death, Xu Ji attacked Jingzhou in a big way, and Xu Ji defeated Sun Quan almost effortlessly after losing Zhou Yu's plan and Sun Quan had not been able to completely stabilize the situation, and then faced Cao Cao across the river.

Cao Cao also did not have any decent resistance, it can be said that the battle a few years ago not only defeated most of Cao Cao's forces but also knocked out Cao Cao's enterprising heart, with the deliberate action of Xu Shu's "mother" arranged by Xu Ji, Mrs. Ding has fallen out with Cao Cao, and then Xu Chu accidentally drowned when patrolling the river, internal and external difficulties and the death of the general made Cao Cao tired to cope, although many talented people in Jiangdong also defected to Cao Cao but it was difficult to bring improvement to the situation, The Jiangdong soldiers were simply unable to resist the naval army led by Gan Ning, which Xu Ji had secretly trained in Yanzhou.

After losing Xu Chu, no one under Cao Cao's account could fight against Chen Dao, only Ling Tong could barely support a few moves in Chen Zhi's hands, and Cao Cao could only choose to defend the city under the unfavorable situation of the field, but he was completely restrained by the siege army of Xun You.

Finally, near the end of the nineteenth year of Jian'an, Xu Ji personally came to Cao Cao's last fortress, Fuchun.

At this time, Cao Jun had completely given up the intention of resistance, and there was no garrison at even the city gate, and Xu Ji only took Chen to enter the city alone.

Cao Cao's mansion was at the end of the deepest street in the city, the door was wide open, Xu Ji entered alone, and Cao Cao sat alone in a small pavilion in the garden, with a pot of still hot wine on the table.

"Sure enough, it is worthy of Xu Wenlie, and he dares to come alone in this kind of battle. Sure enough, I was not disappointed, how about you sit down and have a few drinks with me? Cao Cao's tone was neither sad nor joyful. But it has an extraordinary bearing.

Xu Ji couldn't help laughing and said, "Drinking with a hero like Brother Meng De is an extremely elegant thing. Not only the people have to be right, but also the time and place have to be right. Now Xu Ji is full of blood. Even Brother Mengde, I don't dare to take it if you toast me. Now watching Brother Meng De drink, it is as if I am drinking wine myself, so whether there is wine or not is secondary, and interacting with Brother Meng De is like a spring breeze, and it is more like drinking a lot of peerless wine, which is enough.

Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh out loud after hearing this. Nodding his head again and again, his pale golden face turned red, and he panted a little: "It makes sense, but it's not right." Now, I miss the time when you and my brothers drank and talked in the camp of the garrison outside Wancheng, but unfortunately the people and things at that time have long been wrong, and they can no longer be recovered. To this day, we are all laughs and sisters of future generations, and only Wen Lie is the real hero. Xu Ji shook his head and said: "Brother Meng De's words are wrong, don't judge heroes by success or failure, Brother Meng De will definitely be famous through the ages." ”

Cao Cao shook his head again and again and said: "I, Cao Mengde, can't do it, because today's Cao Mengde is no longer the original Cao Mengde." Since I embarked on this path. In fact, he is already the enemy of the world. ”

When Xu Ji heard this, he said sincerely: "Meng Demo wants to say the opposite, I don't know you yet." In fact, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, you Cao Mengde are really loyal ministers......" Cao Cao said hesitantly: "Wen Lie's words are wrong, if I suspect your intentions and fight against you before." But then your new 'Five Virtues of the End' has been proven to be an irrefutable doctrine, so why should I compete with you for the world? It can be seen that it is my ambition that is at work. But by the time I got there, I couldn't stop. ”

Xu Ji was silent. Of course, he knew that Cao Cao was sincere when he said this now. Cao Cao looked at Xu Ji and sighed: "Say that you are fighting for the world." We are just frogs at the bottom of the well, we only see some superficial struggles, but we can't start a sect in academia like Wen Lie, not only thinking about pacifying the world, but also thinking about the root cause of the division in the world. We are just tinkering, but Wen Lie, you are thinking about reinventing the world, we want to seize the country and become the emperor for our own selfish interests, but Wen Lie, you have nothing to do with being the emperor, so it seems that I, Cao Mengde, are indeed not qualified to compete with you for the world. ”

Xu Ji was stunned when he heard this, he didn't think about it so much. Cao Cao looked at Xu Ji and smiled slightly, and called the three people behind him: "These three boys are my sons, I hope Wen Lieyi can take care of them in the future." ”

Xu Ji's heart sank when he heard it, and he naturally heard what Cao Cao meant. Although he knew that it was impossible, he still couldn't help but say: "Meng De, you and I should go back to Chang'an, and let's join forces to create an unprecedented prosperous era." ”

Xu Ji's words are naturally sincere and heartfelt. But Cao Cao turned a deaf ear, just shook his head, and disagreed, seeing that Xu Ji was very helpless. However, Xu Ji already knew this result, so he was able to accept it calmly.

Cao Cao was about to speak, but he remembered something, and said indifferently to the door at the end of the corridor behind him: "There is one thing you must remember, that is, Wen Lie has not deliberately been an enemy of me Cao Cao from beginning to end, and we have always been close friends." It's just that I Cao Cao has bad intentions, which makes our brothers turn against each other. Although it has not become an enemy, but there is no turning back today, I just hope that you will not hold a grudge against Wen Lie in the future. ”

Then three young people walked out from behind the door, but Xu Ji was full of emotion in his heart after hearing this, knowing that Cao Cao did this to not embarrass himself.

Cao Cao pointed to his three sons and smiled: "Wen Lie, my eldest son Cao Ang is calm and capable. Military talent is good though. However, the momentum is insufficient, and it is difficult to achieve great things, but it is more than enough. Wen Lie can make him a guard, at least it won't be bad. The second son Cao Pi has good internal affairs skills, but he is a little anxious for quick success, doing things only in front of him, sometimes he will make big mistakes if he is not careful, fortunately, there are many calm talents within the Yanzhou Army, he can study hard, my third son Cao Zhi is very thoughtful, but a little arrogant, obviously very capable, but always people are not very relieved, if they are well trained, it is a very good talent to analyze the situation. There are also a few sons and daughters who are either too young or sleeping, and they are still afraid of these soldiers and brothers under Wen Lie's account, hehe, they didn't come out. Xu Ji nodded, but he was extremely relieved in his heart, although Cao Cao had been defeated at the moment. But there is still this last demeanor, and that kind of calm and unhurried bearing is really heartbreaking. If Cao Cao made a prayer. Xu Ji will look down on this first hero in ancient and modern times. The current Cao Cao is the real Cao Cao.

Indeed, in history, he also fled from the desert. But that's because he himself knew he shouldn't have died so early. But now it's different. Once he found out his true situation, he died calmly, even if Xu Ji asked him to stay, he would never survive. This open-mindedness alone teaches people's hearts.

In addition, Cao Cao's sons are indeed good, after all, Cao Cao is very successful in educating children, well, in addition to the three in front of him, there are Cao Zhang and Cao Chong. Although he was not here, Xu Ji knew that these two people were not easy to match. Cao Zhangnai is a fierce general, and Cao Chong is a more powerful genius than Cao Zhi. If you can use it for yourself in the future, it will naturally be a good thing. But the question is, can Cao Cao's sons give up after Cao Cao's death? Xu Ji is still not sure about this, so he can only wait and see.

Xu Ji was silent, and Chen Zhi behind him was also silent, he knew that this was actually equivalent to Cao Cao's last words. Cao Cao looked at Xu Ji and smiled slightly: "As for my wives and concubines, Wen Lie will also take care of them after my death, I heard that the Yin family has been well taken care of in Chang'an." Cao Cao is very grateful here. ”

Xu Ji smiled and said: "Brother Meng De, in fact, Mrs. Yin also came this time, but there was a big battle in a row, and she was not brought into the city. But I've already sent someone to pick up Mrs. Yin. I believe it won't be long before it comes. Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said gratefully: "Thank you Wenlie for that." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and called a beautiful woman behind him, pulled him to his side, and said earnestly to Xu Ji: "This is my wife Bian." In the future, she will take care of the affairs of my family, and no one dares to disagree. ”

When Xu Ji heard this, he couldn't help but take a closer look at the famous female sages of the Three Kingdoms era. Seeing that Bian's expression was peaceful, he secretly praised in his heart. Cao Cao looked at Bian. Full of tenderness: "In the future, you don't always rely on others, the descendants of our Cao family have always worked hard by themselves, whether they are men or women, they must live without looking at other people's faces, you know?" ”

Bian nodded softly.

Cao Cao sighed and said indifferently to Xu Ji: "There is one more thing I hope Wen Lie can promise me." ”

Xu Ji's heart flashed with pain, and he said solemnly: "Meng De, please speak." Cao Cao said indifferently: "After I leave, Tai Shici and Ling Cao will return to the Yanzhou Army, hoping that they can give full play to their expertise." Of course, there are also Li Dian and Li Tong. ”

Xu Ji's heart was big when he heard this, he turned his head to look at Tai Shici and Ling Cao, and saw that the two of them didn't say anything at all, and he was relieved, knowing that this was something that Cao Cao had already set with them, so they naturally had no objection. In fact, in Xu Ji's heart, he had already decided that Tai Shici and the others were mortal. Because they were very loyal to Cao Cao, if Cao Cao died, they would definitely not be able to live, so they did not expect this result to occur now.

Looking at Xu Ji's surprised appearance, Cao Cao smiled slightly and explained: "Wen Lie, there is one thing you have to figure out, including my Cao Cao, the three brothers Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and then Cao Chun and others, they are all members of the Cao family, and they died on the battlefield for the benefit of my Cao family, which is a well-deserved death, as for my sons, not only because they are the next generation, but also because their ability to accept new things is also very fast, the mistakes made by my Cao Cao, although they are irreparable, But they can be corrected in this generation and become the pillars of the country, and although my Cao family accepts the reform of Yanzhou, they cannot be eliminated, so my sons, Cao Ren, Xiahou Chun, Xiahou Yuan and others, are not very old, and these people also ask Wen Lie to take care of them. ”

After a pause, Cao Cao continued: "As for Tai Shici and others, they are not loyal to the entire Cao family, but to me Cao Cao, so they must obey my Cao Cao's orders, these people are rare talents, if they go with me, it will be a violent celestial, and I Cao Cao will definitely not be able to do this kind of thing." Xu Ji listened to it in his heart, and at the same time, he was able to confirm in his heart that what Cao Cao said was true, because in history, although Cao Cao dug people's ancestral graves when he was short of money, he advocated servant when he was dying. When it came to his son Cao Pi, he carried this point forward and put forward the requirement that there was no need for golden jade clothes.

While thinking in his heart, Cao Cao continued: "In short, I didn't help bring these great talents to the grave, and the burial itself is barbaric. Xu Ji nodded again and again when he heard it, although he said that since the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Many monarchs and princes abolished the funeral system. At that time, it was unique to be as similar as Cao Cao.

Thinking of this, Xu Ji nodded solemnly and said, "Of course I agree to Meng De's request." If so, what else is required. Although it is brought up. ”

Cao Cao shook his head. He smiled and said, "No, but I'll write a letter." Let Tai Shici and Ling Cao go to Yizhou, and order Cheng Yu, Mao Jie, and Ling Tong to surrender. Looking at Xu Ji again and smiling: "Maybe you are wondering, why didn't you see Lu Su, hehe, Wen Lie, you don't know, from the moment you fought with me, I already knew that I was powerless to return to the sky, and I Cao Cao was not your opponent Xu Ji after all." So he ordered Lu Su to run to Jingzhou to find Cheng Yu. asked the two of them to join the Yanzhou Army together. Now I must have found Lu Su. Xu Ji was moved when he heard this. Because Cao Caodi's sincerity is really heartfelt. I have always wondered why I didn't see Lu Su, it turned out to be like this, and I looked at Ling Cao again at the moment, knowing that if there was no Ling Cao. I'm afraid that Ling Tong will not surrender. Now my father is out in person. Coupled with Cao Cao's order, Ling Tong would naturally surrender. And you can use this opportunity to lure out Liu Bei and catch Liu Bei and others. After all, they are closed-minded. Even if Cheng Yu and the others surrendered, Liu Bei and the others would not be aware of it.

What's more, he also got a lot of advisers and fierce generals because of this, which is naturally a great gain. You must know that these people under Cao Cao don't have to be bad at all. Cao Cao is a man of his word. At that moment, he asked someone to bring pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and danced on the letter paper. It can be described as an instant achievement.

Xu Ji looked at Cao Cao silently. After a while, Cao Cao handed the written letter to Xu Ji and said with a smile: "Wen Lie, let's see if there is anything inappropriate?" Xu Ji was stunned when he heard this. Immediately understood, this Cao Cao was afraid that he was worried that he had other plans. In fact, this is Cao Cao's thinking too much, because Xu Ji not only believes in Cao Cao. And Xu Ji is not afraid of this at all, because Yanzhou has its own laws, although he will take care of the people of the Cao family, but there are also ways to prevent the death of the children of the big family, so he didn't think about that aspect at all.

Smile at the moment; "Brother Meng De does things, Xu Ji is the most assured."

The two laughed, and in this laughter, all grievances and grievances seemed to be written off. At this moment, the Yin clan had already been led by the Yanzhou scouts to Cao Cao's side. As soon as Cao Cao saw Yin, he immediately stood up mercilessly, hugged Yin in his arms, and didn't let go tightly.

A qiē is all in the words.

Cao Cao's remaining concubines all had smiles on their faces, without the slightest expression of jealousy.

Xu Ji sighed deeply, because he knew that time had flown by, and Cao Cao was about to leave him. Although I was mentally prepared, I still didn't feel good in my heart. Cao Cao let go of the Yin family, looked at Xu Ji, and said with a smile: "Wen Lie, if these relatives of mine and I want to be separated for a while, there is no problem." ”

Xu Ji nodded without hesitation, and then watched Cao Cao walk to the end of the corridor with his own family talking and laughing, and behind the door was a sea of flowers, spreading everyone's sight.

The voice is in the ear, but the person is gone.

Xu Ji turned around and walked towards the door of Cao Cao's mansion in great strides. Cao Cao's friend eventually left, but he didn't feel lonely.

Because at this moment, Xu Ji knew that he had ruled the world and avoided the division of China for hundreds of years in history, and his desire to be invaded by foreigners had finally come true.

Although the seriously ill Liu Bei had not yet been caught, Xu Ji knew that the idea Cao Cao had before he left this world would kill Liu Bei.

Maybe Zhuge Liang's amazing and brilliant character will die by then, but so what? As long as they have performed their glory in this period of history, they will be worthy of their hearts.

In the past ten years, there have been enough infighting, and now it should be over, and the Yanzhou army's whip should be directed at the desert and the Western Regions, so as to seize a stable environment for the stability of the Han Dynasty.

When Xu Ji's footsteps stepped out of Cao Cao's hinterland, he saw hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of the Yanzhou army, led by Deng Ai, including Xun You, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Huan Fan, Xu Shu, Lu Xun, Yu Tuo, Chen Deng and other strategists, kneeling down together, which made Xu Ji stunned. In the next moment, the tsunami-like sound of "Long live" from the mountains surged in all directions, as if it could fill the heavens and the earth and spread the hearts of all the people in the world! (To be continued......)